Looking at my code in VSC this is my very first attempt, but I don't know why didn't worked. It put it in an array so I had to do extra steps... Feel dumb.

the second if statement is ingenious, plus the next if that comes after it is also perfect, the -1 is used so that whether the last position is 2 or 1
(due to potential lack of noses in each case), the index at that if will always be the last position, hot implementation friend :)

i didn't know split empty can split by more than 1 space :O

I doubted you so i make a script to test that. and in fact using the for is like more than 2x faster. as you can see in:
https://github.com/n4ndoDev/mystuff/blob/main/tm.py

Oh ! I'm not smart enough to make such complex decisions. I can only offer a simple solution!)

"It's not a function" No it is indeed a function.
"It must function" OK it functions already and passes the test.

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Hey people!
May somebody shortened my code? :-)

It's slowly then 'for' iteration!

Well, I will not teach a profi with the first level.

It's not a function, but must function.

Output of if operator is true or false!